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I see I'm not the first to post about this topic - the disc thing is pictured in this thread: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/external-wiring-potentially-dangerous.411916/

Thanks AdrianUK - I'd never heard of this and have been reading up on it. Presumably the cable continued and was strung over to my other neighbour. I'll keep an eye out for some old Rediffusion street furniture...

Hi all, I'm looking to do something about an ugly black cable on the rear of my ~1958 semi-detached house. It starts from a black disc-shaped box on the corner of my neighbour's house, runs along under the eaves all the way to the corner of my house where it drops down a foot or so, begins to...

I am running a cold water feed to my shed, about 10m from the house. The house already has a cold water tap on the outside, and I intend to plumb into it (keeping the tap for garden work) but having a permanent feed to the shed. I am digging a trench to the required depth (~750mm) but within...

The brick was already there, providing a butt join to the stub wall. The brick is stronger than the cinderblock, and even chain-drilling the mortar around one of the bricks and gently knocking it out just made the cinderblock above and below it just blow out and crumble: see images and diagrams...

No. I wanted to. Trying to knock fingers in it was impossible. The hollow cinderblock just blew like glass. Rather than only making the gap bigger I just filled it in as it was. There are small overlaps here and there. I added additional lateral strength by opening up some s/s wall ties at...

Just to provide an ending to this thread, I followed @noseall 's advice and tied over what I can. Catnic lintel all installed and built up to support joists. I'm really happy with the result, and so was BCO. Thanks @noseall ! I've now posted a new thread with questions on boxing the...

Hi all, I have recently completed a doorway widening project with a Catnic box lintel: It has lots of pre-drilled 5mm holes, presumably for fixing stuff to: What is the best way to attach plasterboard/fireboard to box it in? Should I use fixings? What fixings should I use? They would...

Thanks for the quick reply noseall. I do appreciate that - I just don't want to continue and then get told that it's not as per regs or something and then have to tear it out. Do you mean without me doing anything further, or after I've attempted to knock out more of the drilled sections?

Hi all, I have widened a doorway in a solid partition wall that "tied" (*) in with my side of the party wall, essentially removing the partition and leaving a gap in my leaf of the cavitied party wall. All blockwork is 1950s/60s cinderblock, with slotted voids running vertically inside the...

Thanks for your replies everyone. To summarise what you're all saying: It appears there are 3 types of drainage to consider in my build: Rainwater - water that falls on roof and into guttering: It's infeasible to connect this to my house's rainwater system due to the gradient and the...

Hi all, I'm building a large shed/workshop/man cave in my back garden (I only moved in over winter). My garden slopes down on a slight incline away from the house (which is good in my opinion), but 3/4 down it raised back up so that in the wet winter it flooded in the middle (Sussex clay...